Many say that US President Joe Biden has a long history of supporting Israel – a true statement. But what’s also true is that Biden also has a long history of duplicitous behavior toward Israel and doing what it takes to gain votes and advance his personal political career.
In June 1982, while Israel was embroiled in a war with Lebanon, then-Senator Biden threatened Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin with holding back US aid.
During the war, Begin had a private meeting with the Senate’s Foreign Relations Committee and was verbally accosted by Biden, who lectured him on Israeli “settlements” and threatened that the US would halt military aid to Israel if it didn’t accept its position on the Lebanon war.
It should be noted that at the time, Israel was more dependent on US military aid than it is today.
Begin shouted back: “Don’t threaten us with cutting off your aid. It will not work. I am not a Jew with trembling knees. I am a proud Jew with 3,700 years of civilized history.”
“Nobody came to our aid when we were dying in the gas chambers and ovens. Nobody came to our aid when we were striving to create our country. We paid for it. We fought for it. We died for it. We will stand by our principles. We will defend them. And, when necessary, we will die for them again, with or without your aid.”
Ironically, while Biden panders to his anti-Israel progressive voters, his stance may cost him the election. While the anti-Israel voters are extremely vocal, a Harvard poll in February 2024 revealed that 82% of Americans support Israel in its war against Hamas and 68% said that they believe Israel is doing what it can to avoid civilian casualties.
Watch below how Prime Minister Golda Meir responded to Henry Kissinger when he threatened Israel:
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Attagirl, Golda! Not for nothing did Ben-Gurion dub her “the only man” in his cabinet!
In other words, the Zionist Begin lied/propagandized, just as the Zionists always have done and do.
“Begin shouted back: “Don’t threaten us with cutting off your aid. It will not work. I am not a Jew with trembling knees. I am a proud Jew with 3,700 years of civilized history.””
This is Zionist-speak for “I am a proud Esav-Zionist, not a Jew”.
““Nobody came to our aid when we were dying in the gas chambers and ovens…””
This is bitterly ironic and so disgusting. The Zionists were the cause of the Jews having been slaughtered in those gas chambers. Moreover, the Zionists lobbied governments against allowing Jews into their countries, knowing full well that this meant that they were sent to those gas chambers.
Etc.
ויהי בימי ביידן הוא ביידן (עומד ברשעתו מתחילה ועד סוף)
Rosh HaKatan: don’t you get tired of pretending to be a Jew on a Jewish website? The jig is up, fool.
True leadership in war!
@HaKatan – Your noting of the irony – “The Zionists were the cause of the Jews having been slaughtered in those gas chambers. Moreover, the Zionists lobbied governments against allowing Jews into their countries, knowing full well that this meant that they were sent to those gas chambers” – is accurate. Ben Hecht’s “Perfidy” brings more than enough proofs by way of testimonies, documents, and articles. However, what is not accurate – or at least a bit misleading – is the fact that The Zionists were strongly against Begin and his government. (Noteworthy is that it was the Begin Government who removed the ban against the above-mentioned book “Perfidy” being sold in his country likely because it unveiled the atrocities of the Zionists before and after the war.
Additionally, Mr. Begin – someone who put tefillin every day, was respected – Kabdeihi vi’chashdeihi – by the Gedolei Yisroel across all hashgafic lines.
He was indeed a proud Jew who saw himself as just one more link in the chain of our 3,300 year history (3,700 year if you begin with Avrohom Avinu), unlike Ms. Meir who saw herself a bit differently.
I am not sure that Netanyahu has the cajones of either Begin or Golda.
Good for Begin, he fought hard and honest against both the British, the Arabs and Ben Gurion’s army. But he refused to kill or injure a Jew.
Biden is an opportunist. That is clear.
Begin was a revisionist and follower of Jabotinsky. Not a Mapainik.
OOFAH!!!
WOW!!
So now we’re quoting Hollywood movies? It spiraled down when you started quoting NYT.
@HaKatan in mind, time to grow up.
@Queenslitvok: cajones? (drawers)